1984 in Literature - Poetry

Poetry

  • John Ashbery - A Wave
  • Louise Erdrich - Jacklight
  • Christopher Gilbert - Across the Mutual Landscape
  • Paulette Jiles - Celestial Navigation
  • Sharon Olds - The Dead and the Living

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